What Is Development For? Rethinking Aid as Reparation
Key information
- Date
- Time
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12:00 pm
- Venue
- SOAS Senate House (SALT) & online
- Room
- Alumni Lecture Theatre
- Event type
- Seminar
About this event
This lecture asks a simple but urgent question: what is international development for?
At a moment of deepening inequality, climate crisis and global instability, the dominant model of international development appears increasingly unable to deliver on its promises. Rather than a project of ‘assistance’ from ‘richer’ to ‘poorer’ countries, this lecture argues that international development should be rethought as a project of reparation that addresses the historical and ongoing injustices of slavery, colonialism and racial capitalism that have shaped today’s global inequalities. Reframing development in these terms shifts the emphasis from charity to redress, and from ‘assistance’ to repair.
Registration
This event is free to attend but booking is essential.
Organiser
This seminar is hosted as part of the SOAS Global Development Seminar Series
About the speaker
Andrea Cornwall
Andrea Cornwall is Professor of Global Development & Anthropology at King's College London.
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